disclosing by God’s design

I’ve been on an amazing journey – claiming my role in the greatest epic ever written and it’s still being written – it’s God’s epic story.  We are all offered a role in this amazing story – the one that was written for us.  So, often though, we often claim smaller roles – or roles that are just wrong for us in the way that God designed us!

It was so life-giving to discover this epic story and realize my role in it!

My life – is my faith, my family, and my friends.  My creative outlet (and as an INFP (Myers-Brigg/Kiersey) is something that I need more than air!  I just need the outlet – no delusions of being perfect in that outlet whatsoever!  However, this is God’s gift to me.  And a gift is not a “gift” until it’s given – and so this is what I give to you.

My “art” reflects my life – sometimes in sync – sometimes not.  It is more likely to be messy than perfect.  I prefer colors that say “Hey! I showed up today!”  If I am working in true pastels, it was probably an “assignment.”  hehe  My art is like my humor:  Highly creative and inventive.  Sometimes you’ll get it and sometimes you won’t.  Whether it be digital design, photography, interior design, entertaining, cooking, and so on an dso on.

When I was in the 5th grade, I entered a poster competition put on by the county health fair.  Everything was “perfect” on that poster.  I had just finished and was putting away a black marker when a bully came up behind me and “bumped” me causing me to drop the un-capped marker on that “perfect” poster leaving a grotesque, unsightly mark.  I completely lost all composure and was absolutely devastated at my now-ruined poster.  My teacher who witnessed the events as they unfolded, hurried over and helped me calm down and told me to watch her.  She took out a piece of paper and dropped a marker on it.  Then, she proceeded to draw on the paper to turn that mark into something else.  She handed me the marker and asked me, “What would normally be in that particular area of the scene you drew here?”  It was a park scene and the “mark” was in my sky.  So, I turned the mark into a bird.  I entered the poster in the contest – and won!  I’ve been coloring and venturing outside the lines ever since – not only in my art but my faith and every role I’ve ever played in my life.

I push the boundaries and sometimes it works and sometimes it fails miserably.  Please allow me to be human and expect all that comes with that including the flaws.  I will do you the same courtesy.

Disclosure:

• If you are a perfectionist or a control freak
• if you don’t have a sense of humor about yourself or about life or about anything
• if you are overly-sensitive concerning the Christian faith
• if you don’t know how to have fun every once in awhile
• obsessed with your own version of a digital magnifying glass
  
• if you are looking for someone or something to criticize, abuse, or bring down
  
• if you don’t play well with others
• if you always have to be right

I can already tell you that this blog will NOT be for you.  Feel free to just move on.  No need to leave me a nasty comment.  No hard feelings.  There are plenty of blogs out there that will be a fit for your needs.  It doesn’t bother me if my blog is a fit for you.

If a download link is not working, please kindly let me know.

If you find something in my designs that is drastically flawed – stray pixels, blurry graphics, severely jagged edges – then please KINDLY bring them to my attention.  I have been known to overlook or completely forget my last quality check where I go through and check for the pixels, trim the elements, etc.  I’m human like that. Just please remember I do not sell myself as a flawless, superior, experienced, polished designer.  I have no delusions of perfection.  Also, understand that my style is eclectic – you never know what you’re gonna get.  And my vision and interpretation in my design may differ from yours.  What you may discern as a flaw or something that just bugs you – may very well be intentional on my part.  (Intentional in the design – not intentionally setting out to bug you!  hehe!)

It might help you to note my approach to my art is very much like my approach to life.  I don’t know anyone is totally flawless under a magnifying glass.  While this makes me a really great person in real life and a much sought after kind of friend to have because I easily overlook your flaws and look for the good stuff about you; I have come to find it really can rub some – particularly in the digital design industry – the wrong way.  I won’t apologize for this approach.

There are very few things in this life that I take seriously – and my art is NOT one of them.  It’s “creative expression” for me – that’s it.  I will always strive to do my best and offer you great stuff on my blog!  I hope that if you’re here, you are because you want to enjoy the blog, can use something I offer, be inspired in your own creative expression….And I hope you’ll share with me what you do with them!

My faith, family, friends – I take seriously.  My God is bigger than anything you can throw at me.

I am often the first to encourage and the last to criticize and I expect the same courtesy from others.

I don’t ask you to love me, praise me, expect perfection, or even look to me for guidance.  I just ask that you join me on this journey – live, laugh, love, hang out, play, create, dream, believe, discover, have purpose and carry on. . . in a no-drama zone that only freedom can bring.

If you are looking for the trip so crowded because the egos are too big; where you can just hang, criticize, spew hatred, be angry, gossip, lie, cheat, be lazy, doubt, be self-serving, creating drama; blame everyone else about why your life sucks so bad while wandering aimlessly on a bound path that will only lead you to despair and more of the same – and you WANT to stay on that trip – then WOW!  ARE YOU SOOOO ON THE WRONG BLOG!

(However, if you find yourself on that trip and you are to the point where you’ve had enough of it, you might want to stick around… I have a Friend I’d like to introduce you to.)